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Say cheese. First ever picture of a Black Hole (well kinda)

https://www.livescience.com/65196-black-hole-event-horizon-image.html

Finally did it. After years of trying scientist finally got a picture of a Black Hole. Well the event horizon the place right before gravity gets so intense nothing can escape light included. The picture in the article is the actual picture taken by scientist using radio telescopes around the world linked up working as one big…

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New Species of Archaeopteryx Discovered

https://www.livescience.com/63925-new-first-bird-archaeopteryx.html

Well it was technically not recently discovered per say. It was first found in 1990 but was just recently studied in detail. It had been in private hands until just now. The current owner has decided to put it on public display which allowed this current study to be done. This particular species is about 400,000 years younger…

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Creepy Forest in Canada breathing?

https://www.livescience.com/63915-forest-breathing-canada-video.html

This is a cool and creepy video. Perfect for Halloween. Is the Earth really breathing in a Canadian forest? No of course not. The reason the ground is moving is actually quite simple and less scary then some crazy monsters living under the ground. It actually happened due to a heavy rain storm that saturated the ground. The…

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Water World

https://www.space.com/41731-alien-water-worlds-could-support-life.html

This article is about whether or not life could evolve and be sustained on a world completely covered and devoid of land. It was long thought that there needed to be some kind of land to prevent a runaway greenhouse effect and allow a carbon cycle like on Earth to form. It turns out under the right conditions a water world…

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Starburst Galaxy

https://www.space.com/41655-unstable-monster-galaxy-runaway-star-formation.html

Before we start no this galaxy is not made up of wonderfully delicious juicy candy. Starburst galaxies are galaxies that produce stars on scales of multitudes more than normal galaxies like our own. In the case of this galaxy it is producing stars at an astonishing 1,000 times faster then our own Milky Way (the galaxy…

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How many moons does Earth have?

https://www.space.com/41502-earth-has-minimoons-asteroid-science.html

I bet you said one pretty quickly and confidently. But I am sure that since I posed it as a question you know it’s probably got to be a trick question. Well we have one permanent moon ironically called the Moon in English. The other moons in our Solar System and Universe are called moons because they act like our Moon. Our was…

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Do you want to own a piece of space history?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/neil-armstrong-apos-collection-space-195600682.html

Well if the answer is a yes. Then here is your chance. Some of Neil Armstrong’s personal memorabilia from the 1st Apollo mission to the moon is up for auction November 1st and 2nd. One of the items is even the camera he took with him to the moon as well as some flags and coins. The auction is being held in Ohio. If…

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Jupiter how large is it?

https://www.space.com/18392-how-big-is-jupiter.html

If you are curious about how large Jupiter is well your in luck. This article tell you all the fact about Jupiter’s size. Like if we could combine all the planets I guess Pluto excluded since it’s not a planet any more as mentioned in a previous AskScruffy it would still be nearly 2 1/2 times the size. It is about 1/10 the size of the Sun which…

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Are Artificial Sweeteners As Bad Or Worse Than Real Sugar

https://www.seeker.com/videos/health/what-do-artificial-sweeteners-do-to-your-body

Apparently they are just as bad or worse than the real thing. They actually make insulin resistance worse and your body can’t actually digest them at all. They just sit in your stomach and hopefully wait for some bacteria to do it for your body. They also make sugar cravings worse since your brain actually knows it…

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Baby Otters Can’t Swim?

https://www.seeker.com/videos/earth/otter-pups-cant-swim-heres-how-moms-turn-babies-into-buoys

Did you know baby sea otters can not swim and are the most helpless of all aquatic mammals. That’s why the hang around on the mother’s stomach. Before the mother goes and feed she has to groom and blow air into her baby’s fur so it doesn’t sink and drown. She will usually find a safe place and anchor…

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3D Printing Bacteria?

https://www.seeker.com/3d-printing-with-bacteria-promises-revolutionary-new-materials-2325107678.html

You make ask yourself who in their right mind would want to do that? Well there are many reason one for biomedical research to print microscopic carbon chains and new lenses for cameras to start with. What’s cools is the team did it with a modified commercial 3D printer that cost about 300$…

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Awe baby planet photo

https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/07/02/world/newborn-planet-image-study/index.html

Finally a picture of a proto planet. It’s really cool to see the first direct photo of a planet forming. It’s a gas giant planet though. It seems to forming similar to our theories. It is forming far away from it’s host star like current models predict.

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Is Alien Life Possible?

https://www.space.com/40917-early-earth-habitability-alien-life.html

This article isn’t so much about the possibility of alien life directly. It is more about the potential habitability of early Earth. The researchers in this article show Earth was habitable much earlier than thought. So they then take a leap and say well if Earth was habitable much earlier than thought and life started shortly…

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Is a real live Jurassic Park possible

https://www.seeker.com/culture/dinosaurs-and-dna-the-science-behind-jurassic-park

This article is about the science behind Jurassic Park and if cloning dinosaurs is possible. Long story short it is highly unlikely we would ever find enough DNA to make it happen. DNA degrades over time, even in amber covered mosquitoes like in the movie. The closest thing we could come to getting a dinosaur is a…

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Interesting Animals of the Cambrian

https://www.livescience.com/27506-cambrian-creatures-primitive-sea-life-from-the-cambrian-era.html

These are some examples of the crazy life that evolved in the Cambrian explosion. Hope you all enjoyed Cambrian day at Just Ask Scruffy.

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Sponge or Nah

https://www.livescience.com/62860-nude-fossil-cambrian-chancelloriiid.html

This article is about an odd creature from the Cambrian. It resembles a sponge but it is actually a Chancelloriid a kind of relative to a sponge. As with all Cambrian animal it is difficult to place it where it belongs on the tree of life. Hope you enjoy this article on Cambrian day at Just Ask Scruffy. As always feel free…

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It’s Cambrian Day on Just Ask Scruffy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian

Here is link if you are unfamiliar with the Cambrian time period. It is when life exploded and most of the modern families of life evolved. It’s probably my favorite time period in evolutionary history. It has so many weird and wonderful animals seen no where else in the history of life. It was when life was experimenting with all kinds of shapes and forms…

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